A Northampton man has been charged with assaulting and threatening to kill his girlfriend after he became upset about a picture of her ex-boyfriend.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by officer Chris D’Alessandro of the Lehigh Township Police Department in the case against Yasmir Hunter:

At 8:51 p.m. July 24, D’Alessandro was dispatched to the 4000 block of Sycamore Drive for a domestic in progress as Northampton County Dispatch reported the female complainant had been assaulted by her boyfriend, Hunter, 31, who had fled the scene in a silver SUV.

The woman said Hunter was upset about a picture he had observed on a cellphone of the victim’s ex-boyfriend.

The victim said that Hunter was in the bathroom in the master bedroom and she was sitting on the bed when he came out of the bathroom yelling, screaming and struck her in the face and her body, before dragging her out of the bedroom and into the living room, where he choked and slammed her onto the floor.

The victim picked up a knife to protect herself and he grabbed it from her hands and began hitting her and screaming at her, and actually put the knife up to her neck and said, “You pull something else and I’ll kill you.”

Hunter left the residence with her cellphone and her CPX-1 9 mm handgun.

Hunter faces charges of aggravated assault; indecent assault; recklessly endangering another person; terroristic threats; and harassment.

He is currently incarcerated in the Northampton County Prison in lieu of $35,000 monetary bail.